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Fujitsu, M'bishi Electric discuss joint cell phone development+
Wednesday, March 24, 2004 - 12:36AM
TOKYO, Mar 24, 2004 (Kyodo via COMTEX) -- Fujitsu Ltd. and Mitsubishi Electric
Corp. said Wednesday they are in talks on jointly developing mobile phones for
NTT DoCoMo Inc.'s FOMA third-generation mobile phone service.
The two companies have no plans to set up a joint venture and any products
jointly developed will be sold under their respective brand names, company
officials said.
Mobile handsets to be developed will be based on the Symbian operating system,
which is used for about 85% of mobile handsets sold worldwide, they said.
Other details of the collaboration remain subject to negotiations, the two
companies said in a statement.
Mobile phone manufacturers are competing in the market for high-performance
handsets while trying to speed up development and slash development costs.
Casio Computer Co. and Hitachi Ltd. have agreed to merge their development,
design and materials procurement operations for cellular phones for KDDI Corp.'s
AU mobile phone services under a joint venture to be formed in April.
2004 Kyodo News (c) Establis
NTT DoCoMo sets lowest flat rate for 3G cell phone data service+
Wednesday, March 24, 2004 - 02:08AM
TOKYO, Mar 24, 2004 (Kyodo via COMTEX) -- NTT DoCoMo Inc. said Wednesday it
will introduce a monthly flat rate of 3,900 yen for unlimited third-generation
(3G) cell phone data transmissions June 1.
The fee is 300 yen lower than the fee charged for a comparable data transmission
service offered by KDDI Corp., NTT DoCoMo's main rival in the fiercely
competitive mobile phone market.
Subscriptions to the new service will be accepted from May 20, NTT DoCoMo said.
The new service will be made available to subscribers of NTT DoCoMo's 3G FOMA
cell phone services, which allow users unlimited use of i-mode data
communications to download content such as games and ring tones in addition to
e-mail and the Internet.
Subscribers will have to pay a basic fee and fees for voice transmissions
separately.
NTT DoCoMo lost its status as the No. 1 mobile phone company in Japan in terms
of net increases in subscribers last year to KDDI, which provides its mobile
phone services under the "au" brand.
Clarke Praises Bush in Resignation Letter
Tue Mar 23, 5:35 PM ET Add White House - AP to My Yahoo!
By JENNIFER LOVEN, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON - The White House, seeking to cool criticism from a former top anti-terror adviser, said Tuesday that Richard Clarke's resignation letter praised President Bush (news - web sites)'s "courage, determination, calm and leadership" on Sept. 11, 2001.
White House Rebuts Ex-Bush Adviser Claim
(AP Video)
"It has been an enormous privilege to serve you these last 24 months," said the Jan. 20, 2003, letter from Clarke to Bush. "I will always remember the courage, determination, calm, and leadership you demonstrated on September 11th."
The letter was stamped "the president has seen" the next day.
Clarke, who left the Bush administration in March 2003 after 30 years in government service and 11 years at the White House, has written a book in which he criticizes the president and his administration for ignoring repeated warnings about al-Qaida before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and acting ineffectively afterward, primarily because of a preoccupation with Iraq (news - web sites).
On Monday, the day Clarke's "Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror" hit stores and the day after he promoted it in an interview with CBS' "60 Minutes," the White House went to great lengths to dismiss Clarke's accusations. Administration officials, including Vice President Dick Cheney (news - web sites) and national security adviser Condoleezza Rice (news - web sites), appeared on television and radio to argue that Clarke was inaccurate, politically motivated, disgruntled over bureaucratic changes that reduced his influence, merely trying to sell books — or all four at once.
That White House campaign continued Tuesday with the release of Clarke's letter announcing his intention to step down.
White House spokesman Scott McClellan suggested Clarke's praise belies his later criticism of Bush's handling of the crisis.
"At this time period, when he was leaving, there was no mention of the grave concerns he claims to have had about the direction of the war on terrorism, or what we were doing to confront the threat posed by Iraq, by the former regime," McClellan said.
But the letter contains no praise of Bush's anti-terror actions before or after the attacks — only on the day of. Clarke does commend Bush for his "intuitive understanding" of the importance of cybersecurity.
Clarke's job as the White House's counterterrorism chief was split in two early in the Bush White House, with Clarke put in charge of cybersecurity and others brought in for the anti-terror role.
"You had prescience in creating the position of Special Adviser to the President for Cyberspace Security and I urge you to maintain that role in the White House," Clarke wrote.
Also, even though the White House argued that Clarke's memoir was released to do the maximum political damage to Bush in a presidential election year, McClellan would not say when the required national security review of the book was completed, allowing its publication to proceed. Publications by administration officials are routinely vetted to make sure that nothing is released that compromises classified information or national security.
Easy, you found Clark believable because you want him to be believable. What I heard was a disgruntled employee who was demoted and out of the loop and now wants revenge.
The only counter Clinton was doing was under one with Monica.
Correction, demoted
It's amazing, the guy gets fired, he writes a book, and then everyone thinks he is telling the truth! Too funny! Besides if he was so good at his job, why did he and Clinton not prevent 9/11 from happening? I'm sure anything he had to tell W. was known when he worked for Clinton. Conclusion: The guy's feelings are hurt by a Black women firing him and he can't handle it!
That will help, but since all the selling seemed to be connected with the Nok decision from the CC, I don't think the big money will come until Nok is decided.
I think this puppy is dead for a while! The price will not go anywhere until Nok is settled. Since that will not be until '05, I don't think anyone is expecting anyone of signifigance to sign a 3g contract. Only think left until then is revenues. Let's hope for a few surprises 1Q, 2Q and 3Q.
I guess you Bush Haters will be in hog heaven after that 60 minute interview.
What are Kerrys favorite shoes to wear...
FLIP FLOPS
He is taking to Flipper right now on Fox
W. just chewed a new one on Kerry...
OK, used my allotted posts for the day. See ya'll tomorrow.
Hey, you can't win them all...
Sorry that does not fly with W. Bulldzr! I said it first about Kerry and you can't spin that one.
He is a loser My Dime!
How about Gov. of Texas!
AMEN (sorry F6)! Brother Zit!
Flipper has never had to earn money to pay his staff or himself. He just takes our money to pay for it! Or he just marries it! He has never had to be accountable for his actions, no matter what he does as a Senator, he can always take our money to pay for it! That is NOT a leader! It is a welfare recipient!
Cost alot to guard the world.
My theory is ya'll are so mad at W. because he proved everyone who said he was stupid wrong. Plus he did such a great job in Iraq, that ya'l can't stand it. If he was really screwing things up, ya'll would be happy and not angry plus you would saying, " see we told you so"!
SHHH, W. speaking!
Sure F6 we now know we can't trust anything they say about W.
We don't know if they are witholding the truth so they can forward their own agenda.
. See what happens to you when you try and report the truth...
-- THE public health experts - and their amen corner in the media - owe Helen Gurley Brown an apology
The legendary Cosmopolitan editor was vilified in 1993 when she published a piece called "The Myth of Heterosexual AIDS." But she was right.
Eleven years later, Details is asking: "Whatever Happened to AIDS and Straight Men?" The article states, "A disease-free man who has unprotected sex with a drug-free woman stands a one in 5 million chance of contracting HIV."
The story by Kevin Gray also cites a joke that made the rounds of the New York City Department of Health as statistics came in showing that the predicted spread of AIDS to heterosexuals wasn't happening:
"What do you call a man who got HIV from his girlfriend? . . . A liar."
"I feel somewhat vindicated," Brown told PAGE SIX.
Michael Fumento, who wrote the original 1990 book titled "The Myth of Heterosexual AIDS," said, "I'm not waiting for an apology. It's not going to happen."
When Basic Books published Fumento's tome, "Distributors refused to handle it," he says. "Stores refused to carry it. And at many stores that did have it, clerks left it in the basement."
Celia Farber, who wrote an AIDS column in Spin magazine, was routinely attacked because she refused to rehash the propaganda put out by AmFAR and other groups.
"Everybody who was wrong got journalism awards. Everybody who was right got all but driven from the profession," Farber said.
Farber exposed the conspiracy between profit-hungry drug companies, researchers who wanted more funding, homosexuals who didn't want the disease to be known as "the gay plague," and conservatives who wanted to turn back the sexual revolution.
"They believed in what they were doing, not what they were saying," Fumento said. "They knew it was lies. They felt the end justified the means."
At a recent editorial meeting at Seed, the new science magazine, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Laurie Garrett supposedly threatened to quit when a colleague suggested a story about Peter Duesberg, a leading retrovirologist.
Duesberg lost his funding, his laboratory, and his students when he announced in 1987 that HIV doesn't cause AIDS. "He lost everything," said one insider. Duesberg switched to cancer research, and is now touted to win a Nobel Prize.
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...and this is the people you trust to tell you the truth...
USA Today Says Reporter Faked Stories
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Mar 19, 10:03 AM (ET)
ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) - USA Today said Friday that an examination of the work of journalist Jack Kelley found strong evidence that the newspaper's former star foreign correspondent had fabricated substantial portions of at least eight major stories.
"As an institution, we failed our readers by not recognizing Jack Kelley's problems. For that I apologize," publisher Craig Moon said.
After spending seven weeks closely examining Kelley's work, a team of journalists also found that Kelley had lifted quotes or other material from competing publications, lied in speeches he delivered for USA Today and conspired to mislead the investigation into his work.
An examination of his computer unearthed scripts Kelley had written to help at least three people mislead reporters attempting to verify his work, the newspaper said.
For a story in 2000, the newspaper said, Kelley used a snapshot he took of a Cuban hotel worker to authenticate a tale he made up about a woman who died fleeing Cuba by boat. The woman in the published photo never fled by boat, and a USA Today reporter located her alive this month, the newspaper said.
Kelley, 43, quit the newspaper in January after admitting he conspired with a translator to mislead editors looking into the veracity of his reporting.
Kelly said he'd never fabricated or plagiarized.
"I feel like I'm being set up," he told editors at the newspaper on Thursday.
Kelley spent his entire 21-year career at USA Today and was five times nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, the most prestigious award in journalism.
For one of the stories that helped make him a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2001, Kelley wrote that he was an eyewitness to a suicide bombing in Jerusalem and described the carnage in graphic detail. But the investigation showed that the man Kelley described as the bomber could not have been the culprit, and his description of three decapitated victims was contradicted by police.
The newspaper also said "the evidence strongly contradicted" other published accounts by Kelley: that he spent the night with Egyptian terrorists in 1997; met a vigilante Jewish settler named Avi Shapiro in 2001; watched a Pakistani student unfold a picture of the Sears Tower and say, "This one is mine," in 2001; interviewed the daughter of an Iraqi general in 2003; or went on a high-speed hunt for Osama bin Laden in 2003.
Hotel, phone or other records contradicted Kelley's explanations of how he reported stories from Egypt, Russia, Chechnya, Kosovo, Yugoslavia, Cuba and Pakistan, the newspaper said.
The three former newspaper editors brought in to conduct the investigation - Bill Hilliard, Bill Kovach and John Seigenthaler - called Kelley's conduct "a sad and shameful betrayal of public
If he is elected, they might have to bring back that old TV show "Flipper"!
Actually, I don't think the country can take that loser being President! By the time he finishes paying everyone back that he owes for the past 30 years of being a politician, the Terrorist would have attacked us again, then we would have to wait foe the UN to protect us, then there would be no more business left in this country! So, no I can't handle the "Flip Flopper" as my President!
I think the bigger question is, can you handle W. being reelected?
Whose truth is that F6? Everything against Bush or Rove is gospel truth and anything good is false.Ya'll are too funny!
...and do you think Kerry has any credibility at all
Well, whatever all that means? I'm in New Orleans and the price where I go is 1.53-1.55! I guess you Liberals just like paying more for gas.
Bin-Laden was testing us with that attack, and W. has passed it with flying colors! Osama has failed!
What a better place then that to keep the Middle East a peace and the rest of the world! Told you W. is the Man!
Hey, we are still in Germany, Japan and Korea. We can open a base there, that is why we went there in the first place.
1.53 by me!
Yeah! Let's put the UN in charge of Americas safety
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British troops rushed to Kosovo
From correspondents in London
March 19, 2004
BRITAIN was rushing 750 extra troops to Kosovo after the worst ethnic violence in the Serbian province since it was put under UN administration in 1999, the Ministry of Defence said today.
The infantry troops - from the 1st Battalion Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment - should, in principle, be on the ground in Kosovo within four days, a ministry spokesman said.
NATO last night sent out a call for reinforcements after 22 people died in the violence between ethnic Albanians and minority Serbs in the southern Serbian province.
The last such major clashes between the rival ethnic communities date before the July 1999 takeover by UN authorities following a NATO bombing campaign on Serbia which forced Belgrade to cede control of the province.
Prime Minister Tony Blair's official spokesman told reporters that the decision to dispatch reinforcements was "an acknowledgement that we take our responsibilities to Kosovo seriously".
He said the call for help - sent from NATO military headquarters - was considered by chief of defence staff General Sir Mike Walker, and the decision announced by Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon at a weekly cabinet meeting.
Blair's spokesman said the deployment should not have an impact on British operations in Iraq or elsewhere.
"The government would ensure that any deployments that have to be made are consistent with our other obligations elsewhere in the world," he said.
British soldiers have been in Kosovo since 1999 as part of the multinational NATO-led KFOR peacekeeping force, though their numbers had been drawn down to about 280 prior to today's announcement.
On its website, KFOR said the 12th Mechanised Brigade of the British army is headquartered in the provincial capital Pristina, with personnel drawn from the Staffordshire Regiment, Royal Engineers and Royal Military Police.
Besides Kosovo, Britain has 1130 troops in Bosnia and Croatia, 8800 in Iraq, 1385 in Kuwait and other Gulf countries, 350 in Afghanistan, 1240 in the Falklands, 420 in Gibraltar and 100 in Sierra Leone.
A further 450 troops are deployed on various UN missions around the world, plus 3200 soldiers stationed in Cyprus, 22,500 in Germany and 13,500 in Northern Ireland, the Ministry of Defence said.
Sir Menzies Campbell, foreign affairs spokesman for the opposition Liberal Democrats, backed the decision to rush British reinforcements in Kosovo.
"There is a risk that the enormous gains made for Kosovo and the Balkans as a whole could be severely prejudiced by continuing unrest," he said.
Agence France-Presse
US takes measures to tighten border with Mexico
www.chinaview.cn 2004-03-17 05:50:20
WASHINGTON, March 16 (Xinhuanet) -- The United States, worried about a surge in violence and instability along the Arizona-Mexicoborder, will begin a major air and ground initiative to help keep out illegal immigrants, drug smugglers and possibly terrorists, a senior security official said Tuesday.
The government is planning to deploy unmanned aircraft, or drones, above the border to beef up border security, said Asa Hutchinson, undersecretary for border and transportation security of the Department of Homeland Security.
"This landmark program supports the priority mission of Homeland Security agencies to detect and deter terrorist activities and cross-border illegal trafficking of people and drugs," Hutchinson said.
The drones would give extra eyes to the border patrol in the southern state of Arizona, and additional border patrol helicopters will compliment the drones in their missions, he said.
The 10-million US dollar plan includes the first use of unmanned aircraft for border control, the addition of several hundred agents and the creation of seven tent complexes to detain illegal crossers, The New York Times reported Tuesday.
A tightening of security in border areas in California, Texas and elsewhere have led smugglers to turn in increasing numbers to Arizona, the report quoted Hutchinson as saying on Monday.
Homeland security officials expect to begin using the remote-controlled aircraft in June to supplement manned air and ground patrol, the report said.
The past several months have seen a spasm of violence and apprehensions along the Arizona border, when illegal border crossings in other parts of the country have dropped. Border Patrol agents in Arizona apprehended nearly 200,000 people from last October to early March, a rise of 34 percent over the same period a year earlier, and seizures of marijuana at the border were up 17 percent, according to the report. Enditem
To the "Bush Haters"...
Just remember the Spanish overreacted about the bombing in Spain and are now regreting who they elected! So, let's not make that same mistake! Did ya'll happen to see all the people in the streets of Spain that were taking up for the Conservative party?